IR Strategies and Tips

Question 1

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What are the IR Best Practices?

Answer 1

1) Be ready to guess: If you realize an answer is too tough or not worth the time, skip it and use that time on other questions. But if you decide to commit, commit fully.
2) An onscreen calculator will be available, use it.
3) Decide on how many questions you’ll allow yourself to guess without spending time on it. You can miss two and still get a top score and if you don’t spend time on 2 that gives you about 3 minutes per question
4) Spend time trying to understand the graph
5) Read the answer choices
6) Read the text

Question 2

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How should you approach Multi-Source Reasoning (MSR) questions?

Answer 2

Read the tabs and make a map that includes a) what is on each tab, and b) what info is repeated across tabs.

Then do the questions